Ed's Rumor Report

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The janitor returns with updates on N64's RE exclusive and Mario 2.

By IGN Staff

Welcome to Ed's weekly Rumor Report. Remember, the information below is not fact and is subject to change at any time. What is it then? It's the industry buzz; a combination of secret whispers of the future and pure, intelligent speculation. Is it real? You decide. I'm just a simple janitor.

The "Buzz"

What's this? The janitor returns. You had better believe it. You can't keep a good man down... and me neither. As I've been "vacationing," over the past few weeks (or was it months?) a lot of dirt has been shoveled over the games industry. That makes my job easy. Ed likes easy. He likes it very much. And so, without further hesitation, let us being this week's return of the Rumor Report. I promise I'll never leave you again.

Mario 2 Dolphin Bound? So they say, anyway. I of course mean the Japanese press when I refer to they. Evidently a good chunk of gaming magazines in the Land of the Rising Sun (is that really capitalized?) are reporting that the fat, Italian plumber may indeed arrive for Nintendo's next-generation console. This despite the fact that those same mags previously reported that Mario 2 was Nintendo 64 bound. Go figure. Maybe he'll pop up for Dreamcast next week.

By the way, isn't overwhelmingly obvious that Mario -- in some form -- will be a launch title for Dolphin? It's almost like saying, "Rumors have it that the sun will in fact return tomorrow morning."

Crusaders of Might & Magic We all know it's coming to Nintendo 64 courtesy of 3DO. I recently found out a tid-bit which I felt was worth mention, though. Evidently the game will not be just another port of the PlayStation original (which has since then made its way to PC). Rather, the Nintendo 64 version of the title will feature its very own style of gameplay -- probably more arcade-like (how is that possible given the PlayStation's hack-and-slack action?) and, obviously, an original engine.

Resident Dino-Crisis Finally, we come to the "original" Resident Evil game for Nintendo 64. It's not Resident Evil 2. You know the one I'm talking about. I've recently heard a new snippet on it. Very much like Dino Crisis, the environments in this RE title will run in full, real 3D as opposed to pre-rendered backdrops. That makes it doubly scary.